Filing system.



F. L. MACDONAGH.

FILING SYSTEM.

' APPLICATION FILED APR-26 1911- Patent-ed Mar. 11,1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK L. MAODONAGH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ACME CARD SYSTEM COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

FILING SYSTEM.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK L. MACDONAGH,

a citizen of the United States, residing in filing systems and refers more particularly to a system of that type consisting of a plurality of overlapping card systems, the lower edges only of the cards be ng normally exposed, these lower edges serving to contain the identifying data *foreach card. These exposed edges become dirty and soiled and attempts have been made to overcome this objection by placing the overlapping cards containing the filing, cataloging or other data in pockets. The objection to pockets, however, are that they take up considerable more room and are more expensive. Moreover, when pockets are used, only one side of the card containing information can be read without taking the card entirely out of the pocket.

Among the salient objects of the invention are to provide a construction in which the exposed edges of the overlapping cards are protected by a transparent sheath, occupying a minimum amount of space and which can be readily applied to or detachedfrom the card; to provide a construction in which the printed or typewritten matter on both sides of the cards can be easily read without removing the card from its holder; to provide a construction which obviates the necessity of typewriting on the extreme lower edge of the card which is a difiicult thing to do in actual practice; to provide a construction which is much less bulky than the ordinary type of pocket cards and thus occupies a minimum amount of space, which is a desirable feature in constructions of this character, and in general to provide an improved construction of the character referred to.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of my improved construction.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical 88051011211 view, on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentaryperspective view Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 11, 1919.

Application filed April 26, 1917. Serial No. 164,590.

showing the manner in which the sheath is secured to the card.

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the manner of removing the sheath from the card.

Referring to the drawings-1 designates the frame as a whole comprising a flat central web portion 2, provided at its opposite vertical edges with marginal frame members 3- and 4;. These marginal members are suitably secured to the central web portion and each has an inwardly extending channel portion 5, and terminates outwardly in beads 6, the latter serving to hold adjustable guide tabs in a manner not shown. Detachably and vertically adjustable mounted between the channel members are a plurality of wire carriers 7, each of which in the present instance, consistsof a wire bent back upon itself, as shown at 8, andterminating in inwardly extending ends 9. Suspended from each of these carriers by means of hinges 10 are the cards 11. The hinges 10 are provided with pintle eyes, by which they are detachably mounted on the ends 9 of the carriers in a well known manner. These cards are preferably formed of paper and the lower end of each card is bent back upon itself as shown at 12 so that it is the portion 13 of the card, which is just above the lower end 12, upon which the identifying data for the card is typewritten such as the name of the customer, for example, M. L.

Brown, and his address, Casper, Wyoming, as shown at 14 and 15 in Fig. 1.

Describing now the transparent sheaths or protectors for the lower ends of the cards, each comprises a U-shaped portion 16, having a shorter side 17, and a longer side 18, the side 18' preferably forming the front of the protector. The side 17 is provided with an inturned lip 19. It is a generally tubular sheath and is so constructed that the legs 17 and 18 lie substantially parallel with each other and the lip 19 normally will lie against the opposed leg 18 and the construction being such as in eflect to have a spring gripping action on the lower back portion of the card. It will be seen in the drawings that the sheath has a gripping engagement With the cards and is obviously detachable therefrom.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a frame member, of a plurality of card carriers mounted QQPY therein, a card; for each earlier, a sheath removably mounted on the lower edge of each card and comprising a generally U-shapecl portion having spring gripping engagement with the lower edge of the card'and having a transparent part. v

2. The combination with a frame member, having opposite channel portions, of a p111- .rality of wire carriers mounted therein, a

card detachably supported from each carrier 10 whereby the lower edges of the overlapping cards are exposed and a transparent sheat detachably mounted on the exposed edge of each of the cards and comprising a narrow substantially U-shaped portion having at one 15 edge an inwardly extending flange.

FRANK L. AGDO AGH." F 

